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Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 7903
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801072166
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 203
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Ignite is the ultimate how-to book for church leaders who want to reach more people for Jesus Christ. Pastor and founder of Church Leader Insights, Nelson Searcy, will provide practical, inventive guidelines for bringing first-time guests through the doors. This book sets forth a step-by-step, biblically grounded, proven plan for creating immediate church growth by utilizing a "Big Day" to mobilize the church for evangelism. This user-friendly guide will show church leaders what they need to do to reach the unchurched in their communities and break through the debilitating growth barriers that are holding them back. Through the inspiration of testimonies and stories, combined with the down-to-earth, applicable teaching that Searcy readers have come to expect and appreciate, Ignite will give church leaders the tools they desperately need to reach and keep modern-minded, unchurched people to create and sustain growth momentum.
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Review: 2009-11-20
Excellent book with extra online resources
One of the things I love about Nelson Searcy's books is that they are so practical. Many books for church leaders are heavy on theory, or have lots of inspiration, but rarely get into the practical ways to do things. This book gives you a real approach to growing your church. In addition, it provides links to free downloadable resources that enhance it greatly. Here's a snapshot of what I took away from it.
1. God wants lost people more than you do.
2. Your Fall big day should be 1 month after school starts because people are still getting their schedule established until them.
3. February is a good time for a Big Day
4. February is accompanied by a host of emotional needs that stay repressed during other months. This is an excellent time to deal with these real needs as a Big Day initiated series.
5. When your members are praying with an "alert mind" and for "opportunities to speak" (Colossians 4:2-3) you have gone a long way towards establishing a minset for evangelism in the congregation.
6. If you do a Big Day without an effective assimilation process in place, you will quickly go back to the status quo.
7. The four corners of the evangelism system are the pastor, personal evangelism, promotion, and preservation
8. Say something like "If you found today's message helpful, whu not invite a friend to join you next week?" at the end of EVERY service.
9. Make a heart for evangelism one of the standard prerequisites for all new hires.
10. We don't double every week because as church leaders we aren't mobilizing people for evangelism.
Review: 2009-11-20
Ten Great Things I Learned from Ignite
1. "God's Kingdom has never been and will never be built on a foundation of complacency". Great quote. We can never become complacent if we want to see God's Kingdom grow.
2. I can best reach people that are like me. This helps me understand why we're reaching the people that we are currently reaching.
3. The concept of "stretch and release". This is very good to know. We can spend time every week pushing things that our people will become numb to. If we push our people along with our big days, they will be more effective in reaching their friends.
4. When asking people to bring their friends, it helps to give them a deadline.
5. I must be leading my flock in the right direction. My evangelism temperature determines the church's. That was pretty huge!
6. The evangelistic temperature of our church is not as high as I thought, or hoped, it would be. It's time to get to work!
7. I (the Pastor) must keep the church outwardly focused if I don't want it to become inwardly focused.
8. We must have our other systems in place if we want to gain the most benefit from our big day.
9. I have to know the difference between wanting God's will or my will from our big day.
10. We have to plant all the seeds we can and trust God to water them and make them grow.
Review: 2009-11-20
Fired up!
I have been reading many books these past 4 years since spending time with Nelson Searcy in a Coaching Network. What Nelson has done in this book is to organize some of his best ideas, practices and learnings into a coherent and useful tool for those who are trying to figure out how to work in the church in the current environment. I do best when I try to find my top learnings from a book so here are the things that hit me the most in this read.
There is plenty here to keep you thinking and doing for quite a while if you put what you find most challenging into practice in your context.
1. I was struck by the Easter survey. To get a test of where people are in their spiritual journey - follower, 1st. time commitment, considering and don't believe. P. 148 What a great way to know if you are connecting people to Christ or not.
2. The follow up process for new believers - knowing myself what I would want them to do in 1st. hour, day, week, month is a great possibility for following up with people who take the first step. p 156
3. "Next steps for Your Journey" read and should devise my own plan (or use much of this one) p. 155 This piece is one of the benefits of buying the book and going to the book's website. more info for free!
4. Jason Eason's 6000 minutes of prayer - just saying things in this way is an awesome thing. I could adapt for our people 2000 minutes of prayer for an event. P.154 It sounds bigger and it is powerful.
5. When the Spirit of God prompts someone to attend church for the first time or for the first time in a long long time what will make them think of us? p 131 Have they seen or heard from us 7 times? This book made me think if what my church is doing to be on the minds of people in the community for that time when they decide it is time to cross the church door threshold in some way.
6. Are we risking enough to put it all on the line to reach people for Jesus Christ? Most of the UMC is not into risk. Are we at our church taking risks for the Kingdom work? p. 125
7. Empower people by expecting and challenging them to give their best .... AND challenging the Staff to do same. P74 I must be more bold.
8. Most likely to see new people in Feb,, Easter and one month after school begins. Pps. 70, 71 (for us it is also Christmas Eve) I am ramping up for this right now.
9. Pastor's primary role is to keep the evangelism temperature RED HOT! p. 53 which means that the evangelism buck stops with me. Ouch, think I just got burnt.
10. Big day, big Day, big day... do it! And something to offer to help them want to come back again the next week. (Most wars are won in the training of the troops)
Review: 2009-10-24
Immediate Growth?
When you hear "double your church in one day," wouldn't you think "what a hoax!"?
I thought so too. But bought it anyway to see what this guy had to say. Though we are in NY too, never heard about Nelson and his church.
But as soon as I picked up the book, I couldn't put it down. Yes, there is nothing new. But 'nothing new' we haven't implemented.
This will spur you. If you are bookish pastor, read this. And be uncomfortable so God can use you.
If you are a Reformed pastor like me, this will benefit you the most because this is theology in action.
I also picked up "fusion" on my kindle and going to download "small group" as well.
His methods are different from Tim Keller's (where many PCA guys are trying to emulate) though they both are serving in NYC. One should look into both.
I am remodeling my ministry around these methods.
Thanks and God bless Nelson!
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